Pulling World Bank Indicators Without Hiding Missing YearsThe World Bank’s World Development Indicators API is a useful way to compare country statistics, but two details are easy to gloss over: large responses are paginated, and a recent year with no observSep 25 · 3 min readbuildingglobaldatatracker.hashnode.dev
How to join World Bank indicators by country and yearWhen two country indicators are plotted together, the join is part of the analysis. Joining on display names is fragile: names vary across sources, spelling changes, and aggregate rows can look like cSep 24 · 3 min readbuildingglobaldatatracker.hashnode.dev
“Latest” has three dates in global data (and dashboards should show them)When a country dashboard says latest, it is easy to read that as current. In a global data set, those words can mean different things. A value usually needs at least three dates to be understood: 1. TSep 24 · 3 min readbuildingglobaldatatracker.hashnode.dev
Why my interactive globe felt slow on a trackpadI built Global Data Tracker with substantial help from Codex: a website for browsing world statistics, country profiles, and an interactive Earth. One visitor reported that zooming became frustratinglSep 19 · 5 min readbuildingglobaldatatracker.hashnode.dev